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[h=4]Former corrections officer: ‘Weak’ moment led to sex with inmate[/h]A former corrections officer told investigators he had sex with an inmate because he was "weak," according to court documents.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
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A former Indiana Department of Correction officer is accused of having sex with an inmate while working at the Indiana Women's Prison. Michael Anthony Adams/IndyStar
Indiana Women's Prison, 2596 N Girls School Road(Photo: Michael Anthony Adams/IndyStar)
A former corrections officer told investigators he had sex with an inmate because he was "weak," according to court documents.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Lamont Williams said he<span style="color: Red;">*</span>had<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"never been a weak person" in the past, but when he had sex with an inmate while working at the Indiana Women's Prison, he "was just weak."
Charges were filed Monday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Marion Superior Court<span style="color: Red;">*</span>against Williams, who faces two counts of sexual misconduct and one count of official misconduct related to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>incidents at the prison in October 2014 and January<span style="color: Red;">*</span>2015.
Indiana State Police officials told IndyStar that Williams, 55, was taken into custody without incident<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Monday and has<span style="color: Red;">*</span>been<span style="color: Red;">*</span>booked into the Marion County Jail.
State Police detectives<span style="color: Red;">*</span>began investigating Williams last July, after they were contacted by an internal affairs officer at the prison. An inmate told the officer that Williams had sex with her<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on two occasions while he was on the job.
The inmate, according to court documents, saved Williams' semen in a tissue after she had performed oral sex on him. Police were able to match Williams' DNA with the evidence in the tissue.
Her first encounter with Williams happened Oct. 25, 2014, court records state. The inmate told detectives that she was in a custodian closet, trying to fix a mop handle, when Williams came into the closet, grabbed her from behind, pulled her pants and underwear down to her ankles and tried to have sex with her, court documents said.
She started bleeding and Williams stopped, the inmate told detectives.
A few months later, Williams approached the inmate again, this time unzipping his pants in the doorway of her cell. The<span style="color: Red;">*</span>inmate told investigators that she thought, "OK, I'm going to get him."
After Williams finished, the inmate kept his semen in a tissue and turned it over to the prison's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>internal affairs officer.
When Williams was first approached by detectives in December 2015,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he denied ever having sex with an inmate. "Nope never had," he said, according to court documents.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>He even agreed to take a polygraph test and give a DNA sample.
But he failed the polygraph<span style="color: Red;">*</span>test, and his DNA came back as a match to the semen in the tissue, court records state.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid," Williams said, crying, after detectives told him "he was being deceptive" during the polygraph. He then admitted to having oral sex with the inmate, "maybe twice," court documents said.
"I was weak," Williams told investigators. "I have never been that weak before."
He said it all "happened so fast" and accused the inmate of pursuing him.
Williams was hired as a correctional officer at the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Plainfield Correctional Facility in March 2007, a spokeswoman for the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Indiana State Personnel Department told IndyStar. During his tenure,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he was a corrections officer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>at the Indiana Women's Prison from October 2012<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to March 2015, before transferring back to Plainfield.
The Department of Correction fired him Feb. 1.
"Mr. Williams was terminated due to unacceptable behavior not meeting agency standards," said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Ashley Emsweller Hungate, the personnel department's spokeswoman.
Other than his termination, there were<span style="color: Red;">*</span>no complaints or disciplinary actions listed in Williams'<span style="color: Red;">*</span>personnel file, Hungate said.
IDOC officials said Friday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>they could not respond to questions because Williams had not been arrested. A spokesman for the department said they would respond to IndyStar's questions Tuesday morning.
Williams is being held in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the Marion County Jail on a $15,000 bond.
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